Purpose Statement

Program Overview

The Teacher Leadership Certificate Program (TLC) is designed to provide the essential tools teachers need to be knowledgeable, reflective, and ethical educators. This innovative program fosters leadership development through an interactive set of experiences that include sound theoretical and "best practice" knowledge, problem-based coursework and field-based experiences.

Program graduates are empowered to become teacher leaders who are committed to making schools culturally relevant, just, and supportive learning environments for all students.

Program Goals

The Teacher Leadership Certificate program (TLC) is designed to develop a new generation of leaders within the teaching profession. With a shared vision of teacher leadership advancing the profession, the TLC’s goals are to:

Activate teachers as leaders for students and the profession as a result of their participation in this process;

Build networks of teachers equipped with the knowledge and skills to mobilize, advocate, and lead around issues concerning 21st-century student learning, as well as the profession, and education policy;

Develop teacher leadership as an integral factor in teachers’ professional development;

Florida Atlantic University embodies a culture of strategic and collaborative community engagement that results in mutual benefit to the institution and the diverse internal and external communities that it serves.